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1653. Wilts. Joan Baker of the Devizes makes complaint because two persons have reported her to be a witch.

_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 127. Is this the Joan Baker of Exeter mentioned a few lines above?

1653. Wilts. Joan Price of Malmesbury and Elizabeth Beeman of the Devizes indicted, the latter committed to the a.s.sizes. _Ibid._

1653. Yorks.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Lambe accused. _York Depositions_, 58.

1653. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Newman of Whitechapel acquitted on one charge, found guilty on another, and sentenced to be hanged. _Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 217, 218, 289.

1653. Middles.e.x. Barbara Bartle of Stepney acquitted. _Ibid._, 216.

1653. Leeds, Yorks.h.i.+re. Isabel Emott indicted for witchcraft upon cattle. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, IX, pt. 1, 325 b.

1653. Salisbury, Wilts. Anne Bodenham of Fisherton Anger hanged. _Doctor Lamb Revived_; _Doctor Lamb's Darling_; _Aubrey, Folk-Lore and Gentilisme_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), 261; Henry More, _An Antidote against Atheisme_, bk. III, chap. VII.

1654. Yorks.h.i.+re. Anne Greene of Gargrave examined. _York Depositions_, 64-65.

1654. Yorks.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Roberts of Beverley examined.

_Ibid._, 67.

1654. Wilts. Christiana Weekes of Cleves Pepper, who had been twice before accused in recent sessions, charged with telling where lost goods could be found.

”Other conjurers” charged at the same time.

_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 120. See above, 1610, Norfolk.

1654. Exeter. Diana Crosse committed. Cotton, _Gleanings ... Relative to the History of ... Exeter_, 150.

1654. Wilts. Elizabeth Loudon committed on suspicion.

_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 129.

1654. Whitechapel, Middles.e.x. Grace Boxe, arraigned on three charges, acquitted. Acquitted again in 1656. _Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 223, 293.

1655. Yorks.h.i.+re. Katherine Earle committed and searched.

_York Depositions_, 69.

1655. Salisbury. Margaret Gyngell convicted. Pardoned by the Lord Protector. F. A. Inderwick, _The Interregnum_, 188-189.

1655. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Mother and daughter Boram said to have been hanged. Hutchinson, _An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, 38.

1656. Yorks.h.i.+re. Jennet and George Benton of Wakefield examined. _York Depositions_, 74.

1656. Yorks.h.i.+re. William and Mary Wade committed for bewitching the daughter of Lady Mallory. _York Depositions_, 75-78.

1657. Middles.e.x. Katharine Evans of Fulham acquitted.

_Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 263.

1657. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Crowley of Stepney acquitted, but detained in the house of correction. _Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 266, 295.

1657. Gisborough, Yorks.h.i.+re. Robert Conyers, ”gent.,” accused.

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